Abuse Quotes - Page 6

The abuse of power takes happiness away.

We have copped a lot of ignorant abuse in the past, but it makes you wonder when a former state coroner openly attacks Aboriginal families who have been through hell.

I think there's definitely billions and billions in waste, fraud and abuse. There's billions that can be generated in the economy by eliminating the bureaucracy.

No country is 100 percent free of human rights abuses.

On Bill Clinton: "If left to my own devices, I'd spend all my time pointing out that he's weaker than bus-station chili. But the man is so constantly subjected to such hideous and unfair abuse that I wind up standing up for him on the general principle that some fairness should be applied. Besides, no one but a fool or a Republican ever took him for a liberal.

Most people abuse power. They use power to dominate others. They use power to destroy others. Ultimately when you do this, you lose it.

Emotional abuse is like being continuously kicked in the shins. It can be worse than getting one punch in the face, and it cements itself.

Political correctness will die as it lived - kicking and screaming ad hominem abuse as a substitute for arguments.

One's soldier should not abuse the enemy. 'Arouse a bee and it will come at you with the force of a dragon.

You survived the abuse, you’re going to survive the recovery.

But because their ancestors were men of righteousness, shall we consent to the abuses of their degenerate descendants? Because they did us a great good, would we be guilty if we prevented them from doing us evil?

There was mental and physical abuse in my family.

I see an incredible abuse of close-ups in many films these days. Why is that?

Everyone has a right to be stupid. Some just abuse the privilege.

Human beings will continue to deceive and overpower one another. Basically, everyone exists in the very nature of suffering, so to abuse or mistreat each other is futile. The foundation of all spiritual practice is love. That you practice this well is my only request.

We must ensure that while eliminating child labor in the export industry, we are also eliminating their labour from the informal sector, which is more invisible to public scrutiny - and thus leaves the children more open to abuse and exploitation.

The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.

Forgiveness is created by the restitution of the abuser; of the wrongdoer. It is not something to be squeeeeeezed out of the victim in a further act of conscience-corrupting abuse.

Learn to use an axe, and respect it and you can't help but love it. But abuse one and it will wear your hands raw and open your foot like an overcooked sausage.

Scurrility has no object in view but incivility; if it is uttered from feelings of petulance, it is mere abuse; if it is spoken in a joking manner, it may be considered raillery.

Every good movement passes through five stages, indifference, ridicule, abuse, repression, and respect.

Abuse is abuse; Be nice.. Harsh words don't break bones but they often break hearts.

The court does not fly off the handle. It does not shout abuse. It speaks calmly.

We must take the best from the left and the best from the right to devise new strategies for the global twenty-first century. The reluctance of liberal professors to speak out against rampant abuses committed on their side (e.g., suppression of free speech, the excesses of women's studies and French theory) has simply increased the power of the right.

It's important to make sure that governments have some checks on what they do, that people can oversee what's being done so the government doesn't abuse it.